Reliant Medical Group

Reliant Medical Group's decision to be acquired by for-profit OptumHealth will change the physician network's tax status, allowing it to generate revenue for the cities and towns where it owns real estate.

Reliant Medical Group doctors and trustees have unanimously voted to be acquired by OptumHealth, a spokesman said Tuesday evening.

With Reliant's potential sale – its board is voting on May 9 – fears over the ceding of local control need to be balanced with the realities of a changing healthcare industry: costs must come down and providers must find further efficiencies.

The largest independent physician practice in Central Massachusetts – Reliant Medical Group in Worcester – will decide May 9 whether to be acquired by a division of $185-billion healthcare conglomerate UnitedHealth Group.

Reliant Medical Group's board of trustees will likely decide whether or not the physician network will partner with a Minnesota company when it meets May 9, a spokeswoman confirmed Monday.

The largest independent physician practice in Central Massachusetts – Reliant Medical Group in Worcester – is close to signing an agreement to be acquired, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.

A Worcester physician has been named an “Immunization Champion” by the Massachusetts Adult Immunization Coalition.

Savers Bank employee Brian Keith shared his struggle with addiction with more than 150 people at the Worcester Business Journal's inaugural Massachusetts Opioid Crisis Forum on Wednesday.

Dr. James F.X. Kenealy, a Reliant Medical Group physician, has received the 2017 Special Award for Excellence in Medical Service from the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Worcester-based Reliant Medical Group has hired Dr. Eric Lupoli to its Department of Internal Medicine in Spencer.